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The polite cousin of disgust — it just quietly leaves the room.

means A strong feeling of dislike or reluctance that makes you want to avoid something entirely.

from From Latin avertere — ab- 'away' plus vertere 'to turn' — literally 'a turning away.' The same root that gives us 'versus' and 'invert' is doing the same physical gesture here: imagine recoiling, pivoting your whole body from something unpleasant. English picked it up in the 1500s–1600s still carrying that sense of turning the face away before it settled into the purely emotional meaning we use now.

not fear
fear flees danger, aversion flees discomfort
origin
latin avertere, to turn away from
learned fast
one bad oyster can cause lifelong aversion
opposite drive
aversion and craving run the same brain circuit
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